Three Trailers We've Had Our Eyes On This Week: Saoirse, Hewson, Mescal

This week’s trailers are focused on strong female leads. And Jack Traynor served two ways.

First up, Garth Davis (Lion) directs Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal (Aftersun), and Aaron Pierre (Old) in Foe.

Based on Iain Reid’s book, with a screenplay written by the author, Foe is a “philosophical suspense story” set in the near future where Hen (Ronan) and Junior (Mescal) live in relative peace on a secluded farm until Terrance (Pierre) shows up with a life-changing proposal.

Foe premieres in theaters on October 6th.

Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters) will star with Jack Reynor (Midsommar), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Flora and Son on AppleTV.

From writer/director John Carney, who also wrote and directed Sing Street and Once is about the frustrations of being a Boy Mom, the lengths we go to for our kids’ happiness, and the transformative power of music. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a John Carney film, would it?

Flora and Son premieres in select theaters on September 22 and begins streaming on AppleTV on September 29th.

In what looks like a compelling return to The Big Screen for Hilary Swank, Jack Reynor and Olivia Cooke (Little Fish) star with her in The Good Mother this fall.

Swank plays a journalist grieving the death of her son, who teams up with his pregnant girlfriend (Cooke) and a cop (Reynor) to track down the drug dealer responsible for his death.

The Good Mother opens in theaters on September 1st.

This week’s lagniappe is the trailer for BASTARDEN/The Promised Land. A biographical piece starring
Mads Mikkelsen in period costume, and occasionally on horseback, as 17th-century Danish explorer Ludvig Kahlen.

It will be released in Denmark on October 5th. No word on when it will be available in the US. But, I feel confident that someone’s got a Mads Alert set to let us know when it’s headed this way.